Male and Female Imponderables - You & Me & the Bottle Makes Three

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RIVERISMYGODDESS

Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:14 PM

mornin' Imponderables. long-ish post ahead (mostly due to quoting you shiny folk).

mornin' JQ. I was wondering where you all were today (the last post was 2 am before I got on)

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Originally posted by msg:
ooh a space ship....what I really want is a way to give each student a laptop, headphones, etc and teach each directly so they can all go at their own pace and study what interests them...now that'd be technology

That sounds like a great way to work it out, as I am sure that keeping everyone's attention when some get it and want to move on while others need more explanation/teaching isn't easy (which is why I admire you and teachers like you so much).
Georgia teachers got a raise this week, which makes me happy, as they are one of several professions that I feel are grossly underpaid.

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Originally posted by Tristan:
Now, I have to admit being a bit of an ass when it comes to cell phones. I hate the bloody things, and I think they are the reason society has become more and more rude. How many times do you see someone in line at a store, restaurant, or whatever, jabbering away and not even acknowledging the person across the counter? Yes, I realize that cell phones are important for the emergencies they can get people out of, but IMHO, that is what they should be used for.

I am with you on that one. I don't have one, and my brothers and friends laugh when they see my little pieces of paper that have my phone number collection written down on them. I seriously want to develop some sort of directional EMP device to zap people's cell phone when they are driving and talking. Not sure if it is possible, but I want one.

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Originally posted by Tristan:
...and yet here I am typing away on a computer...hmm.

Ahhh, the curse of the internet. We meet such shiny people that we want to talk to and get to know but they are all over the world, so the computer and internet become more and more of a necessity. It's a mixed bag I suppose.

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Originally posted by jpstargazer:
Yeah, I am pretty impressed by the identity. I mean summation, multiplication, and exponentiation along with the ratio of a circle's circumference to diameter, the base of the natural logarithm, and the imaginary number equal to the square root of -1 all in one "simple" equation? It's pretty amazing. I had one professor tell me it was the greatest equation EVER.

I tend to agree with your professor, which is the reason I got it done in the first place.

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Originally posted by RugBug:
Or not even acknowledging the person they are eating dinner with? I'm tired of people answering their phone and jabbering away when I'm with them. If we are hanging out, WE are hanging out...not me, you and whoever decides to call during that time frame.

That is one of my biggest pet peeves, especially because I don't get to hang out with folks a lot. Tell them to call back later, or just go on and hang out with them, don't waste my time.

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
That'd have been too good a movie. *HK hearts Crowley*

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Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
JP - you are the first person to know what it is since I got it done
Maybe first one to mention it.

My current favourite is regarding the halting probability Ω. *nerd glee!*

After further research, the last official thing I can find about it on the internet is from 2003, leading me to agree with your assesment.

As for the tattoo, that's what I meant, first to mention it

(silly sexy Slythern)

HK, YinYang, I read all of both of your posts, and you made lots and lots of excellent points. I have one quotation to share with y'all, in reference to the survival of people using analog skills like hunting and sewing and such:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a

JONNYQUEST

Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:35 PM

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Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
mornin' Imponderables. long-ish post ahead (mostly due to quoting you shiny folk).

mornin' JQ. I was wondering where you all were today (the last post was 2 am before I got on)

Been here lurkin' since about quarter to 8. Have yet to read my way through the last 1/3 of the thread (1/3 is a fraction; see I do know some real math...) which is about four posts altogether. I see now that it not technology per se that we need to worry about in this world. It's getting a bunch of math geeks in the same room till all hours of the morning deciding the fates of worlds.
So my options are:

or

Where's MsG's rocket taking off from???

"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"

RIVERISMYGODDESS

Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:44 PM

I like the a = b "proof", have seen it somewhere before. It reminds me of the following (and I'll probably get in trouble with someone for this).

As we all know, time is money.
time = money
We also know that girls take time and money.
girls = time * money
Thirdly, we know that girls are evil.
girls = evil
Substituting, we get
evil = time * money
Substituting again we get
evil = money^2
Which then proves
sqrt(evil) = money
In English: Money is the root of all evil.

~jimi
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'cause the Roman Gods up to that point were crap. Jeff, the god of biscuits, and Simon, the god of hair-dos.

JONNYQUEST

Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:01 PM

The purity of mathematics is such a beautiful thing. Brings a tear to my eye...

Edit: Just read up on the halting probability Ω, and should have realized how nicely it fits in with Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. *geek swoon*

"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"

TRISTAN

Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:38 PM

Morning, all!
Hopefully I can get a quick post in before the thread moves...

Hello to all and sundry!
Qing ren, Thank you for the phone message! Put a smile on my face first thing this morning.

Hell's Kitten...and everyone else too, I guess...
I am not anti-technology. I do not think we had it "better" in any golden age. People joke with me that I should have lived in the Middle Ages, and my response is always no, they did not have power tools. I do think there are certain things that go a bit too far too fast, and cell phone technology is one of them. They are not just things used to talk to people...they have internet connections, music players, cameras, etc...way too many bloody distractions.
That's it. My two credits. Just the cell phone issue.

The internet has made it possible for me to meet all of you, my family...so it is a good thing.

RIMG, I have discussed the EMP thing with my brother (another math person) in the past, and while plausible, it would be difficult to construct and move about. If it does get to a working model, I'll give you a call.

Qing ren!

And I see we are back at math...this is where I gallop off.

Good morning to those I missed, and hugs all around!

Coffee time....

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MAVOURNEEN

Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:49 PM

Morning, RIMG & JQ (and all others!)

Well, JQ's prediction of my house falling down did not happen. On the up side, Tidbit is better & went to school today. Downside, now Husband is sick and is home. I wouldn't kiss either of them yesterday for fear of the creeping crud getting on me. Probably too late anyway.

Technology? Love it. Fear it? Not really. I don't think anything will take the human out of the equation.

Look at books. Despite the advent of the Internet, e-readers, movies/dvds, and anything else I've missed, books still exist. Humans love books and will always want to hold on in their hand.
I reference as proof Star Trek: The Next Generation where Jean-Luc is reading a book and says almost the same thing to someone (Riker?) about physical books.

Technology is here and we must become more comfortable living with it. Will I get a HUD implanted in my head? Probably not.

Most of you are my age or older. I remember getting our first microwave oven. Cable tv. the VCR. Cell Phones.
Tidbit, RIMG's boys, LA's Space Monkeys...will never know a world without these things. Their comfort level is built in. It is you and I, mon amie, that have the discomfort.

Time to brew another pot o' coffee. Back soon.

EDIT: Hippo Birdies Two Ewes, Tristan!

RIVERISMYGODDESS

Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:53 PM

mornin' Mavs *hugs*

Good point about the books, and also about our kids having a comfort level that we did not know.

~jimi
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'cause the Roman Gods up to that point were crap. Jeff, the god of biscuits, and Simon, the god of hair-dos.

MSG

Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:46 PM

Morning all

Happy Birthday to Jonny and Tristan :) HUGS and much love

Yinyang- very well thought out statement.Bet you get great grades:)

Whitefall we both said it because as teachers we have learned that every moment/period in time, no matter how unwelcome or painful, is finite. It will end and better things will come...

OK I think we need a new thread so here goes
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=26462

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."- Albright

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RUGBUG

Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:17 PM

Just to clarify: I don't think technology is evil. I do enjoy the possibilities it affords, from cooking up a dinner in 2 minutes flat, to real time chatting with people across the world from me.

I think the problem is the end user. When people allow technology to replace social interaction or when the boundaries of polite behaviour are eroded to a point that people are discussing some intensely private stuff in public places...we've got a problem. Future generations will never go backwards to a more polite society: those boundaries will continue to erode.

That, in a nutshell, is my problem with some of the new "personal" technology.

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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw

JONNYQUEST

Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:40 PM

Hello all my dear-hearts. Thanks for the birthday wishes, MsG. I expect another tomorrow...!

Observe as evidence. I remember when color TV was something very few families had and the screens were round-ish. I remember when we all had antennae on our housetops and bad reception inside. I remember when Pong first came out and we spent hour after hour marvelling at the technology. I remember when Microwave ovens were called Radar Ranges (people even put spaces between words back then). I remember my wide-eyed wonder at TV remotes and this cable thing my cousin in Vancouver had.

You know what? Before Beta and VHS, and that list of electronic gaming wonders Kelhil and Laurelin referenced, and Commodore64's (64!!)and AppleII's, I was a couch potato. There wasn't even a word for that back then. "The boy needs to get outside more. He needs to get some fresh air and sunshine."

Our current technology may seem like Buck Gordon and Flash Rogers--hell, even Dick Tracy--but the sloth we think it embodies was around long before. Before TV there was radio and movies and dime novels. And a funny little industry called Pulp Fiction. And comic books. Which are thriving more now than ever before. Go figure that!

As to technology and ethics, you have to wait for my ideas in my response to HK and YY.

Carry on.

"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"

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